Shloka 29
Brahmacarya-Upāya: Jñāna, Śauca, and the Mind’s Role in Desire (शान्ति पर्व, अध्याय २०७)
अहोरात्रं च कालं॑ च यथर्तु मधुसूदन: । पूर्वाह्न चापराह्न॑ च सर्वमेवानुकल्पयत्,इन्हीं श्रीमधुसूदनने दिन-रात, ऋतुके अनुसार काल, पूर्वाह्न तथा अपराह्न आदि समस्त काल-विभागकी व्यवस्था की
ahorātraṁ ca kālaṁ ca yathartu madhusūdanaḥ | pūrvāhnaṁ cāparāhnaṁ ca sarvam evānukalpayan ||
Bhīṣma said: “Madhusūdana (the Lord) duly arranged the divisions of time—day and night, the seasons and their proper measures, and also the forenoon and afternoon—indeed, the entire ordering of temporal segments.”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Time is not random but part of a divinely instituted order: day/night, seasons, and daily segments are structured to sustain dharma and regularity in life and ritual.
In Bhīṣma’s instruction in the Śānti Parva, he attributes the systematic division of time—daily and seasonal—to Madhusūdana, emphasizing divine governance of cosmic and social order.